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Perspectives on Language and Language Development brings together new perspectives on language, discourse and language development in 31 chapters by leading scholars from several countries with diverging backgrounds and disciplines. It is a comprehensive overview of language as a rich, multifaceted system, inspired by the lifework of Ruth A. Berman. Edited by Dorit Ravid and Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, both from Tel Aviv University, Israel, the book offers state-of-the-art portrayals of linguistic and psycholinguistic phenomena with new insights on the interrelations of language structure, discourse theory, and the development of language and literacy. The volume presents innovative investigati...
Simple text and photographs introduce the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitats of North American bats.
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! What animal has lots of fur, small ears, and a long nose? Brown bears! But do you know what brown bears eat? Or what they do in the winter? Read this book to find out! Learn all about different animals in the Animal Close-Ups series—part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life!
What animal flies, has sharp claws, and hangs upside down to rest? Bats! But do you know what bats do at night? Or how they find food? Read this book to find out! Learn all about different animals in the Animal Close-Ups series—part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life!
This book explores how schoolchildren and adolescents employ language in different communicative settings. The authors demonstrate how language development is affected by the language and culture in which it evolves, and use brain studies to provide a deeper explanation of developmental changes in language behavior.
When Ruth Berman pays a surprise visit to her agnostic geology professor, Archie Knox, a torrid romance ensues, bringing with it a host of problems. Archie wins an award and decides to go to Antarctica for twelve months to research the timely prediction of earthquakes. Ruth cannot adjust to the icy claustrophobia and succumbs to temptation, creating a nightmare of events in the Circle of Death. Death in McMurdo is a gripping story involving a mismatched couple who face life-threatening challenges in a hostile environment while attempting to make the world a better place.
Describes the dynamics of a wolf pack, the way in which wolves hunt, and where they live.
An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the rattlesnake.
This volume brings together work by scholars with backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, education, and language pathology. As such, the book adds psycholinguistic and crosslinguistic perspectives to the clinical and classroom approaches that have dominated the study of “later language development”. Incorporating insights from prior language acquisition research, it goes beyond preschool age to consider both isolated utterances and extended discourse, conversational interactions and monologic text construction, and both written and spoken language use from early school-age across adolescence. Data from French, Hebrew, Spanish, and Swedish as well as Engl...